A Strange Beautiful Excitement: Katherine Mansfield's Wellington by Redmer Yska
$39.95 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a 'ravishing, immersing read', A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a 'wild ride' through the Wellington of Katherine Mansfield's childhood. From the grubby, wind-blasted streets of Thorndon to the hushed green valley of Karori, author Redmer Yska ...Show more
Anchor Stone by Tony Beyer
$39.95 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
ANCHOR STONE by Tony Beyer is "a significant book by a significant poet" (Mark Young). It includes several longer works & a significant proportion which deliberately address issues relevant to contemporary concepts of New Zealand identity and culture. Importantly for the work of a senior pakeha poet ...Show more
Baby by Annaleese Jochems
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Best First Book Award for Fiction 2018. Cynthia is twenty-one, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen when her bootcamp instructor, the striking Anahera, suggests they run away together. With stolen money and a dog in tow they buy 'Baby', ...Show more
Cleansing the Colony: Transporting Convicts from New Zealand to Van Diemen's Land by Kristyn Harman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction
Secondhand. Everyone knows Australia was once a penal colony, but few realise that New Zealand prisoners were sent there. During the mid-nineteenth century at least 110 people were transported from New Zealand to serve time as convict labourers in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania).
Dancing With the King - The rise and fall of the King Country 1864-1885 by Belgrave Michael
$65.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
After the battle of Orakau in 1864 and the end of the war in the Waikato, Tawhiao, the second Maori King, and his supporters were forced into an armed isolation in the Rohe Potae, the King Country. For the next twenty years, the King Country operated as an independent state - a land governed by the Maor ...Show more
Drawn Out - A Seriously Funny Memoir by Tom Scott
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. Tom Scott is a political commentator, political cartoonist, satirist, scriptwriter, playwright, raconteur and funny man. He's been drawing political cartoons for Wellington's Dominion Post since 1988, was in the Press Gallery and was famously banned by PM Muldoon. He's observed David Lange, ...Show more
Driving To Treblinka: A Long Search for a Lost Father by Diana Wichtel
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Both the Royal Society Te Apārangi Award for General Non-Fiction 2018, and Best First Book Award for General Non-Fiction 2018. As a young child Diana Wichtel is brought up in Vancouver, Canada. Her mother is a Catholic New Zealander, her father a Polish Jew ...Show more
Fearless: The Extraordinary Untold Story of New Zealand's Great War Airmen by Adam Claasen
$59.99 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
second hand. More than 1000 New Zealanders served in the Royal Flying Corps, Royal Naval Air Service and the Royal Air Force. Several, including Sir Keith Park, later became senior air commanders of the Second World War. Among them were leading air aces, including Keith Caldwell, Ronald Bannerman and t ...Show more
Five Strings by Apirana Taylor
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Mack is a larger-than-life street philosopher and Puti's a former gang member looking for something more. Together, they're at the bottom of the heap. They live out their lives in a haze of smoke and alcohol, accompanied by a host of other characters scraping by on the fringes of society. Will any of th ...Show more
Flow: Whanganui River Poems by Beautrais Airini
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
Wherever bodies of water are, people settle, and stories collect. Six generations of poet Airini Beautrais' family have lived near the Whanganui River, the restless, all-encompassing figure at the heart of her fourth collection Flow. Flow is a brilliant polyphony of stories - large, small, geological, e ...Show more
Fully Clothed and So Forgetful by Hannah Mettner
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
A Winner in Ockhams New Zealand Book Awards - Best First Book Award for Poetry 2018 Fully Clothed and So Forgetful is an intimate, intelligent first book by Hannah Mettner. Moving through love, motherhood, sexuality, family and anxiety, these poems infuse universal themes with wit and sudden, even shock ...Show more
Goodbye Maoriland by Bourke Chris
$59.99 NZD
Category: Illustrated Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Be it `Tipperary' or `Pokarekare', the morning reveille or the bugle's last post, concert parties at the front or patriotic songs at home, music was central to New Zealand's experience of the First World War. In Good-Bye Maoriland, the acclaimed author of Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular ...Show more